Is the cloud sufficiently secure? Despite its benefits in terms of cost and ease of use, many IT professionals attending a prominent industry event expressed major concerns about security, in terms of their company data as well as their own data.

Venture capital investment is alive and well in the tech sector and companies all over, from storage specialists to cloud platform providers, are closing some pretty hefty sums. Here's a look at recent funding rounds and the backers that made them happen.

As the total amount of stored information reached an estimated 2.7 zettabytes in 2012, the range of technologies hitting the market to handle all that big data also rapidly grew. Here's our list of the coolest big data products for the year.

Flash storage, once found mainly in SSDs, in 2012 took on many forms as storage vendors introduced new hardware and software that incorporate flash technology in so many ways to increase storage performance.

Michael Dell spoke to more than 600 VAR and distributor executives and answered partner questions Tuesday during Dell's Global Channel Partner Summit at Dell World in Austin. Here's a look at what he was asked and what he had to day.